Queerguru caught up with STORMS who has such an infectious passion for this project, and after talking with him about portraying one of the greatest queer writers of all time , we can tell the play is going to be one of the major hits at this years Festival.
The American writer BRAD GOOCH was part of the queer artist scene in NY’s West Village in the 70’s and 80’s . He wrote about this time there in his memoir SMASH CUT when he was working as a fashion model and living with his filmmaker boyfriend in the Chelsea Hotel. He was in the Village when the cut a vicious swath taking the lives of so many young queer men.
Brookner was one of them, so too was the artist/activist KEITH HARING who died in 1990 at only 31 years old. Haring whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s made an indelible mark on the city which seems just as relevant today. Gooch’s new biography “Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring” acknowledges the enormous impact Haring had in his day but how part of his legacy has been the major impact on the art world (and the activist one too) some 30 years later.
Queerguru talked with Gooch about his life then, and also the unquestionably importance of people like him bearing witness and recording our community’s history from a queer insiders viewpoint . Reading about Haring again reminds of us of all the remarkable human beings that were taken from us far too early, but at least Gooch, in making his book, has made a celebration of a life that would impact so many of us.
The interview was filmed in East End Books in Provincetown
The moment we read the first lines of the synopsis of FLICKER a new play heading to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, we knew we need to know more. It read “Have you ever thought about your dad’s c*ck at a funeral? If so, you’d probably dismiss it. But what if your brain couldn’t do that?” This hilarious modern-day queer farce. goes from one of many intrusive thoughts to a real feeling, but it= asks how do you know what’s true, or intrusive? If you can’t trust your own thoughts, what can you trust?
Flicker explores Pure OCD and is from the fevered mind of Gaby Foley a recent graduate from the Royal Welsh Drama School who has based so much of her own experiences into this her debut play . Although when QUEERGURU caught up with her she went out of her way to reassure us that she hadn’t ever really thought about her about her father’s genitalia
Direct from Las Vegas, leggy drag legend EDIE where she starred as the emcee, the “Mistress of Sensuality,” in Cirque du Soleil’s hit show ZUMANITY at the NY-NY Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for 13 years, is back in Ptown. She has a sizzling new show which celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the cult movie PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT Appearing in PTown’s fab new RED ROOM Edie also shares her love of living in the Mojave Desert where the heat is hotter than the men. Just Queerguru caught up with her as she stepped off the stage after another dazzling performance one Monday night.
The global lockdown caused by the COVID pandemic gave rise to a deal of imaginative thinking as to what to do with ourselves now that most of our lives were on hold. In Melbourne Australia, queer comic and performer DARBY JAMES decided he not only wanted to help the world continue procreating, but that as a good show tunes queen he would set it all to music. too.
His award winning show LITTLE SQUIRT was the result of his fevered brow , and once QUEERGURU heard that he was headed to perform it at the EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE, we knew we just had to ask him to dish about the show..
After all its not many gay men who may be personally responsible for producing a whole new generation of Australians and It puts a whole new meaning to on of our favorite gay bar expressions ‘call me daddy!”
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